(January 26, 2015 at 1:32 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote:(January 26, 2015 at 11:21 am)Drich Wrote: All of the bible is written from two perspectives. God's and Man's. I am suggesting that the genesis account is from Man's perspective and not God's as it lack the technical detail God could include.So, do you imagine the seven days happening in seven days, or do you imagine the seven days happening over billions of years in phases that are overlapping and ordered differently from Genesis 1?
Think of John of Patmos and how he was given a seat at the end of the world to watch and record all that he saw. To me Genesis is written from this same type of perspective. As if God took Moses or whomever and sat him in one spot and let creation unfold around him. That is why everything is written from only one perspective, while God could have given several different/more complete explaination.
(January 26, 2015 at 11:21 am)Drich Wrote: The Quail did not come along till after the Jews complained about the manna. (for months/years) The manna was pounded into bread. I don't know about your cats but mine did not eat bread.Of course cats are native to the desert and could hunt lizards. Also humans would not survive on a diet of ordinary bread for 40 years. Manna must have been very nutritious and could have been made into cat kibble in addition to human bread IMO.
Yes 7 days is 7 literal days.
Why? Jesus supported the 7 day creation when He spoke of it. As He was there I would tend to take his word.
Let say there was 1000 cats in a 1000 acre camp, how long before the lizzard population (and other cat size meals) in that area would be gone? how long before the cats become meals for larger animals, or maybe even traded off if they had such value.